A really nice evening last night at the Paul Simon event in Congleton. Mine was the only original song, though there were a few original poems inspired or connected to Paul's words and life. John handed me a creator's copy of the album, which looks really nice:
I remain hard of hearing, but it's gradually got better each day, my treatment and remedy is hope and trust in my evolutionary biology; that treatment from Beethoven's day. Today I've expanded a few of the Fall in Green tracks. There are 14 on the album now, including an instrumental about the solstice. Most tracks are under 3 minutes, the album 35 or so, and overall it compares with Revolver by The Beatles, so can't be that bad.
One of the possible inclusions was 'Soaked Monet', so I listened to Deb's performance of that from the Wonderland Knutsford concert in 2021. It was spoken only, over sounds of a swimming pool, no music. I set up a string sound and played something, which sounded rather nice, but too long for this poem, and perhaps too solemn. I may work for one last track here, perhaps We Slip Into French Like Tolstoy.
Deb's had a fraught and stressful few days. I hope that we can make it to the Ty Pawb opening tomorrow. I've been looking forward to this for months and now it might be that we can't go.
Oh, one other thing done yesterday was setting up accounts on Bluesky, a Twitter alternative. I will probably only post there from now on, and have updated many Twitter links to point towards Bluesky. I dislike Twitter and I feel that the world has been waiting for a credible alternative for some time.
